Our good qualities expose us more to hatred and persecution than all the ill we do.
Some good qualities are like the senses: Those who are entirely deprived of them can have no notion of them.
There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
Nothing is rarer than true good nature; they who are reputed to have it are generally only pliant or weak.
Nothing is rarer than real goodness.
It is often hard to determine whether a clear, open, and honorable proceeding is the result of goodness or of cunning.
There are heroes of wickedness, as there are of goodness.
